To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

The sun will never set on my empire (my empire on the sun, empire made of fire)

The stargazing events to look forward to in 2025, from auroras to partial eclipses 🧪 by @leahc.bsky.social

I have a theory about cars being the first phase of human carcinization

I want a Google Wrapped - tell me the stupidest things I searched this year. “Where do they keep spare oxygen in submarines” “Carcinization for humans” “How fast can a hippo run” “Is the bean attached to the ground”

This is what I’m TALKIN’ BOUT, people!! More of this

wavefunctions when you observe them

Beautiful! And what’s cool is that the rings are *not* solid objects! As you zoom in you see more and more distinct rings within rings. Each composed of billions of independent bits from tiny up to the size of a house. All clumping and interacting in weird ways!

We have tried so hard to find the missing link between Air Bud and Minions. I have read every related Wikipedia and IMDb page and all of the linked sites. I know we are not making this up. PLEASE HELP

convergent evolution of jnco jeans

Doesn’t the heat death of the universe sound kind of… peaceful?

moving to the moon so i can jump higher

In February 2021 I took a photo of the lovely spiral galaxy NGC 1566 from my backyard. Then I went back and photographed it again December, later that year. I didn’t realise this but someone mentioned that there was a supernova (SN 2021aefx) in my photos! It’s that new bright star! ⭐️ 💥 🔭

anyway the best shape is triangles

…I guess I’ll try to be back on bsky, see how it goes

I'm happy to share the latest episode of the Dead Planets Society podcast with @chelswhyte.bsky.social and @leahc.bsky.social! I join them as they use their god-like powers to create a geocentric solar system and imagine the consequences. www.newscientist.com/article/2436...

PSA: If you live anywhere near this blob and it’s not cloudy, tonight is a good night to go outside and look up www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...

Unfortunately, for the last several days the only thing in my horrible traitor brain has been a version of the Twelve Days of Christmas that I have titled “Oops, All Rings”

The two-part finale of season one of Dead Planets Society is available for your ears! We explore what would happen if Earth were a cube. The corners would be in space, time would get wacky, and we might even have more sea monsters! Listen here: www.newscientist.com/article/2403...

So, er, .... @chelswhyte.bsky.social and @leahc.bsky.social dragged me into their evil lunarcidal conspiracy... www.newscientist.com/article/2396...

dis my best friend

sup discworld nerds. i need some more book recs because i really shouldn't just reread discworld a bunch on my upcoming long flight (and many in my to-read pile already are hardcover, which i don't wanna schlep). help?

hey guys check this out

there is no such thing as wrongfully accusing the moon. the moon is guilty.

blockchain is just a google sheet that’s bad for the environment

Spoiler: we're doing it by destroying Mercury. Sorry not sorry, Mercury. 🧪🔭

Pluto's making a comeback! We're turning it into a proper planet by any means necessary in the latest episode of Dead Planets Society www.newscientist.com/article/2391...

drop something blue from yr gallery

if someone could replace the word “RUMBLE” here with “FRIENDSHIP” it would make me v happy

It's time to choose: Death or Gong? Episode 4 of Dead Planets Society is out today! It's extra-goofy, featuring @asrivkin.bsky.social and Ye Olde Asteroid Gong. www.newscientist.com/article/2387...

Baby bird *finishes hatching* Sorry… am I in a bowl of sticks? Am I in a fucking bowl of sticks a thousand feet off the ground right now, yes or no

eat shit, camus

A weighted blanket so heavy it reverses the expansion of the universe and everything gradually collapses to a singularity

don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it

This is a big deal not just exploration-wise but also politically - India and Russia originally intended to collaborate on a lunar lander. India’s independent lander has now made it and Russia’s… didn’t. A major point of pride for ISRO! 🧪🔭

Dead Planets Society Episode 3 is out! It's about gravitational waves, and whether we could use them to cause an apocalypse 🔭 🧪: www.newscientist.com/article/2387...

eeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh

I put my dog to bed in her crate and now I’m lying in bed looking at pictures of my dog

kinda wild how like u can have a wave and it'll act like a particle and then u can have a bunch of those particles and then they'll act like a wave. but maybe they also get squished real close and become a Big particle and u can have a bunch of those acting like waves again or w.e

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT NO AAAAHHHHHHH

this is pip the pup, she is an goober

Without downloading any new pics where are you at mentally

do i have enough followers here to do a vibe check? i’m curious

Last night I was looking at the Moon with the 11yo. I asked, did she know that the light arriving at her eye had bounced off the surface of the Moon just over one second ago? Like, it had been *right there* on the surface? She got very quiet, then got a huge smile.

astronomers bout to name this the VLS

oh shit the worm

hello me and my friend made a podcast and the first episode is about exactly this, and other ways to put out the sun https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/1-dead-planets-society-kill-the-sun/

My dad says Dead Planets Society is “like Car Talk for physics majors” which may be the best compliment he’s ever given me, so go listen!

The thing about this podcast is that while it is surprisingly educational (🧪🔭 woo) it’s also extremely goofy and fun and I’m very proud of it. Have a listen!

Welcome to Dead Planets Society, where @chelswhyte.bsky.social and I take our most unhinged ideas about destroying the cosmos and subject them to the scrutiny of real physics. In episode 1, we're destroying the sun! https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/1-dead-planets-society-kill-the-sun/